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  Last time on no latency. This We go shopping.
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  Let's take a look. All right, let's check out the
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  vending machines. Oh, sorry, Eddie's restaurant.
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  There's a little Taser boy plushy in there.
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  You have to have. It it's a great brand. 69
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  Eddie's it is. Did you want to be fake tased?
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  You can't. Just pull a gun on me.
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  My God, my. Staff doesn't knock.
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  I'm knocking I knock I. Suppose I'll be waiting for you
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  guys out here. All right, well, who wants to
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  come with me? Do we know who these people are?
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  Well, we're here to do business. Sure, people want to get their
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  drinks before going on such a lengthy walk.
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  Can we see the heart before we begin a lot of big.
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  Suits here retro. I think you can get into the
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  bathroom. And I see a bunch of anime
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  protagonists and antagonists. Can you read this?
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  Is that some sort of gun? There are torrents.
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  OK, back up and you'll back up, back, back up, back up.
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  Jeff, roll stealth quick. That was a 23.
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  That's really good. You managed to push the great
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  back into position and balance it in place and the turret get
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  lets off. A little beep and then a little
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  error noise to indicate it has not acquired a target.
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  Must have been nothing. Berman possibility 90% powering
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  down. All right.
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  You don't look very mousy to me. Ha ha, we almost died.
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  Oh shit. OK, that one was really good and
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  the only reason I'm not gut busting laughing right now is
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  because there is an automated gun with its barrel pointing
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  right towards us just outside this grate.
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  OK, now be Neil. Yes.
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  I got a plan. OK.
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  I'm going to jump out OK and draw the fire OK of the turret
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  OK, And then you're going to run down OK and kick it with your
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  leg with. Your Oh yeah, and neither of us
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  have a smoke grenade. Oh, well, I mean, now that you
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  mention it, yeah, I do. I got two of them.
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  Well, wouldn't that help the situation?
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  I think you're right. I'll run in, draw the fire of
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  the turret, then throw the smoke grenade at the turret so that
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  you can run up and kick it with your robot leg.
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  What if we set off the alarm? Oh, purpose.
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  No, I mean, that's bad, Jed. Oh, don't I see?
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  It was a, It was a if we set up the alarm, that's bad.
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  Don't do that. So we I'm assuming since it
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  thought we were vermin, if we can destroy it before it
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  recognizes a target, maybe we can trick the system into
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  thinking it's just an error. Brilliant.
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  I don't think that's going to work.
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  That sounds like bullshit to me. No, it's, it's perfect, it's
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  lack if, if we can somehow get the riots to chew through the
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  wiring, then it'll. Basically what I'm saying, Jeff,
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  is if it sees you at all, that's bad.
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  So why don't we? Why don't you do the the smoke
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  grenade first? Well then I won't even have to
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  to draw the the. No, if I'm going to, if I'm
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  going to take this thing out in one hit, I have to hit it from
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  behind, which means you're going to have to go in there and make
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  it turn somehow. Right.
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  So we're back to Plan A. Yeah, but we'd smoke first, so
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  it thinks that you're a rat or something.
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  Right, right. Because this, because the, the,
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  because of all the, the smoke that the rat puts up when it's
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  when it's well. But it could.
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  It could be smoke from like a train or like a Stoner in the
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  tunnel. It could be anything.
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  Right, right. So we could wait, wait until the
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  next train comes by and then throw the smoke and then go in.
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  Jeb. Yeah.
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  That actually might work. You know, every once in a while
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  I accidentally stumbled into a good play.
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  Yeah, the train going by is actually really, really smart.
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  Well, thank you. I appreciate that.
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  No, I'm actually, I'm actually impressed.
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  Maybe teaming up with you won't be so bad after.
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  Well, Bendale, you know, I couldn't have, I couldn't have
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  landed on that without your help.
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  So I, I, I, I, I chalk it up to both of us.
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  Cool. Yeah, that sounds great.
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  So we just have to wait for a train to pass.
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  Yeah. Do you got the the you got the
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  train. Wait.
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  I can let me repeat that. What's it?
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  Schedule. Do you got the train schedule up
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  on your under time? Right, it'll be here in 2
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  minutes. Oh, that ain't so bad.
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  All right, So we've got 2 minutes to get ready.
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  What are we doing? We've got 2 minutes.
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  Yeah, we got. Well, how's the?
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  You should pull the grate this way a little bit, I guess.
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  Get ready to Chuck it. Oh.
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  Oh, I thought you meant like mentally, but we're getting
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  prepared. But you mean musically, OK.
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  Jeff, we, we, we now have a minute and 30 seconds, so.
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  I see. OK, Yeah, I'm just gonna quit
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  you OK, I got it. Since I got the grenade, you you
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  kind of move the the the grade over.
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  You can squeeze in between me and the and the side.
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  Of the wall before. Yeah, OK, OK.
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  Yeah, just just kind of just got pushed over to the sat there.
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  OK, OK. Now I'm just gonna.
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  Press the thing all. Right.
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  And hold on to it. And when I open this, you and I
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  both roll stealth and then you roll to throw that grenade.
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  So whatever you want to do for that.
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  OK, ready. OK, let's stealth now.
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  I'm going. To throw a lock in here for
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  Vendel just for just in case. Because they have two lock,
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  don't they? Yeah.
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  Well now one yes that is enough. The door is opened and now Jeb
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  throws this grenade. Jeb roll something to throw the
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  grenade. 19 bordering on professionals, so I'd say it's a
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  DV16. You throw this grenade and the
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  room fills with smoke. All right, for now, I'll run in
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  and then and like tickle it so that it looks over at me and
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  then you kick it from behind. Good idea, Jeff.
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  Yeah. I'm going in.
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  The room is filled with smoke. Whoa, yeah, it's like.
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  Wait. I can't.
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  Really tell what's going on. But I guess that's the point,
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  eh? Hey.
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  Stinky gun over here. Roll roll me something to pull
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  the gun towards you acting 12. Yes it's very bad bad acting,
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  but you get a + 2 for the smoke around you giving you a 14 to
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  that role. Bendale gets behind it pulling
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  out there exit sword and goes to sever it from the network.
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  This is a difficult task. It's going to be a DB17.
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  Hey yo, you get two hits with a sword?
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  Try. Again.
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  Hold on, do I have any inspiration?
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  Wait, wait, wait. No, no, I got it.
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  I got it. I got it.
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  God damn it. And I run up and I and I shove a
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  grenade into the barrel of the gun.
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  Should have. You're in this tiny room Well.
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  They both have really good reflexes I suppose.
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  Oh yeah, they do have reflex, don't they?
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  So you hear Vendel fail to get a sword into the back of this
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  turret. Oh.
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  Fuck. These are really well made corpo
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  turrets. Jeb, you're going to have to do
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  something. And Jeb, you shove a grenade
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  into the barrel of this gun, and you can hear it beep.
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  What do you do in this moment? Ivendale back to the back into
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  the wind. Back into the wind.
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  All right, roll that. Roll Athletics.
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  There 21 Jeb. Yes, you make it into the vent.
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  18 for Vendel. And Vendel rolls 18, getting
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  into the vent and blocking it behind them.
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  I like to think that Vendel jumps in like nice and smooth
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  and then Jeb jumps up and like pulled in by by Vendel.
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  I'm going to roll AD 10. Hey Vendel, you were.
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  That is seven. That is high enough.
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  The train comes by at the exact moment that the grenade goes off
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  and it blasts past you and the thing goes off.
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  Now there was enough mastinations with this.
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  You did it quickly enough that the turret just fails and there
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  is a shudder through the whole building.
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  You take a deep breath inside of this vent as the dust settles.
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  Oh, hey. Been there.
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  What was that other thing that was in the room?
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  I think it was a power transformer.
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  Oh, do you think that did anything with the power?
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  I think we should check the damage first.
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  I'll poke my head out. You open the vent and look into
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  the room and it's smouldering slightly.
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  The explosion was big enough that it kind of created a bit of
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  a shudder, and you look over at the transformer and it looks
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  worse for wear and it seems like it's still running.
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  Jeb pulls out his tile. Call Diana.
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  I I don't answer the call, I'm sitting at a table.
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  What's your what's your voicemail sound like?
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  Hi, you've reached Diana Popescu.
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  Please leave a message after the tone unless it's a stupid
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  question. Beep.
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  Oh. So good.
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  OK, well, I'm not sure it's if it's a stupid question or not
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  Island. So I'm going to go ahead and
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  just ask. Well, first of all, how you
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  doing? Kind of been a while.
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  Hope, hope everything's going on all right over there with you
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  and the rest of the crew over in the main quest, if you will.
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  Us over here on the side mission are doing great too.
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  Van Del say hi. Hi.
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  Yeah, Anyway, there's a transformer here and just
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  wondering if we should go ahead and take it off the system.
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  Yeah. Hope everything's great and hope
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  to hear from you soon. All right.
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  Anything else Van do? No.
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  All right, have a great day. Meanwhile, so everyone's finally
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  sat down at the table and Vance speaks up.
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  Now what I need you all to understand about this object.
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  The inventor was a genius, but a one shot wonder.
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  The mathematics and algorithms behind holding a tiny nuclear
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  reactor in such a small space drove him mad.
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  When my team found him, he was truly insane.
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  As you're all aware, cigarette doesn't deal with power or
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  technology. I just want my Commission and
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  miss fruits so that it could be part of an investment.
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  I misunderstood that that was code for something and here I
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  am. Lovely to meet you all.
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  Yes. I don't have anything to say to
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  these people. Well, Continental brands could
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  certainly do with this kind of product.
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  Can you imagine a vendor machine that does not require power or
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  the potential for portable food creation?
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  If we are here for the power of the people, we're also here for
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  the power of the city. Says Jessica Scythe Zeke Boulder
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  lifts his. Head well, of course, you know
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  with the Zeke rafter you could really use product to you know
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  make make machine powerful not have to charge, not have to
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  charge big deal. People like it when you not have
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  to charge. I notice, you know, wireless
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  charging was really big for a while, but not have to charge at
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  all, way better and plus we can then charge them for the entire
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  new object saying that heart is difficult to remove, you know,
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  obsolescence be very good for investment.
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  All of you invest in company, We take it, we take it.
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  It is obviously ours for me to be there.
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  I am down. Celine Basque chimes in.
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  Well, the thing with power is, one of the main things we have
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  to fight with, with our augmetics is not having internal
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  power. That's sufficient.
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  Can you think of the augments that we could sell with power
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  cells based on this technology or even if we could miniaturize
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  it, obviously that would prolong the investment, but could
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  definitely do well for everyone in business.
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  Mr. Mastic from Petrochem. See, The thing is, I think this
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  is bad for all of us. Just like with the electric
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  cars, we need to snuff that out for as long as possible so we
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  can sell more of that black stuff, you know what I mean?
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  So I vote, but we sell it to Petrocam with my bid and then we
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  keep that and well, we, we, we all invest in the advanced
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  energy the Petrocam can provide. So that, that that's my position
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  and I think that's all of us at the table.
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  Would you not agree? All right.
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  So everyone else has made their statement.
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  Biotechnica, would you like to say anything else?
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  Well, if we are worrying about the people here, I think that
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  biological, technical advancements such as this heart
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  is only going to better serve the people than fossil fuels and
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  augments. I just have to think on it.
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  Are you saying that Biotechnic is some kind of neutral ground
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  and they'll rent out this deck to everyone, making it a equal
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  investment? That's not something that I am
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  saying, but it's not something I'm not saying.
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  Oh. Business.
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  I like such business talk. And then Miss Fruits stands at
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  the screen, points their hand, and the Nuclear Heart appears at
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  the screen behind Vance. He turns around to look at you
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  all. Look up.
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  She looks at you all. And the bidding will start at
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  100,000 eddies. As they finish that sentence,
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  the whole building shakes and drink.
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  Oh. Kind of feels like an explosion
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  is. That an explosion.
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  God, will you check if there was an explosion?
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  And if you're not careful, the jig is up.
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  What? What's going on?
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  I whisper. Metro.
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  And that's when you get a transcript of the voicemail that
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  Jess sent you earlier. It's badly translated, but you
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  get the gist. They have to blow up a turret.
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  I forward the transcription to VVN.
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  What I mean, have I gotten anything from Vendel about the
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  power thing? Yes.
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  So you know that there is a power transformer back there and
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  Vendale also says you might have to cover for that.
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  It was loud. No, I I've been down in the
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  tunnels before. Trains are quite loud and you
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  know, with all of the rubble and destruction that has happened in
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  this station, it's most likely that a train coming by may have
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  made some rocks fall. Again, I not quite sure.
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  In fact, I would say that it goes to show you've yet to
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  reveal anything to us yet, Miss Fruits or Miss or Mr. Lester.
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  Whatever do you mean? Well, we've talked about the
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  pros have said heart, but what could go wrong with a nuclear
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  operated power source? What are things that in buying
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  this investment that we are now attaching ourselves to, you have
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  yet to release that to any of us?
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  Only showing us the beautiful leaves of the flower, but not
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  the thorns, one could say. The the radiation is less than
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  you'd get living in Night City, and when it fails, the half life
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  of the object kills. The it's an ingenious piece of
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  tech. If you can break it, it just
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  stops. But how does that work?
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  That's that's probably the biggest thing.
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  In order to replicate this, you would have to do that.
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  We stole it from the madman. He kept the he kept the plans in
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  his head. Yeah, that's right.
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  And you killed. It it's always the crazy ones
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  that are best to steal from. I do think medics came from in
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  the first place. So hold on, Mr. Lester, just to
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  illustrate, just so my boss can understand here you found the
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  person that created this heart ingenious plan.
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  They kept all the records in their head and instead of say
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  perhaps, you know, putting up some charges, locking them down,
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  potentially even maybe putting them into a brain dance so you
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  could get said figures out of their head, you just kill them.
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  So now you have to now pay more money to retroactively reverse
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  engineer said heart, which who knows how much extra money
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  that's going to be so. Money release an object for
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  anyone at the table, but it's more than if we wanted to
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  extract memories or work with someone's mind, we'd have to
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  involve Arasaka, and that's is not something that the investor
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  group does anymore. It's a little distasteful.
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  Arasaka or the act of not including them.
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  Oh no, Arasaka. Oh good, you're on our side.
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  This is spicy. Role persuasion both retro and
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  Iona, but also can Vivi if you wanted to add anything to this
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  you. Can I think Vivi feels very out
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  of her element here with all the like, all this like corpo speak.
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  So she's kind of like quietly watching and she whispers.
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  Yeah, she does whisper. Like little comments to Retro
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  like this is spicy. Retro and Iona rolled 18 and 17
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  respectively, enough to convince everyone to remain seated.
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  Miss Fruits still asks the guards to report from the
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  tunnel. Is everything in the tunnel all
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  right? Yeah, yeah, just had a kind of a
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  bang, but everything seems to be fine.
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  The power flicked a little bit in the hallway.
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  Oh, that's. Not good, I'll start there.
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  Auction. And she stops communicating.
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  That just seems to be a train or something.
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  Maybe there was a car bomb Anyway, so who's taking the
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  heart? They'd start at 100,000 eddies.
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  115,000. All right.
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  Oh well, I'm going to say 250. DM.
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  Yes, 250 thousand. Can I in using my Chiron in my
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  tile and such, can I do a search on the garden to find any dirt
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  on said people and their companies to use in a way
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  against them in our bidding? Sure.
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  We're up for it. Continental Brands puts down
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  300,000. 300,000 They're really bidding up fast.
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  Well this is a slow part. If you thought that was spicy,
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  just wait till the Tabasco about to get dropped on this bitch.
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  Oh man. I'm I look around the room, I
• 19:39
  make eyes at Vivi and Remy. Should I bid again?
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  400,000 for Rocklin Augmetics. Keep going. 500,000.
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  Yeah, yeah. 500,000 from Biotech 550,000.
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  Yes, that would be me of 550,000.
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  What did I find him? You rolled 16 and you discover
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  that two of the people who came to the last investors meeting
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  are dead. Holy shit.
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  Did I find out on whether or not the on anything that could
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  potentially corresponding such as they were the lowest bidders,
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  they were the highest bidders. They were the lowest bidders,
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  but the only people other than Miss Fruits who was at any of
• 20:34
  those meetings. Vance.
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  Vance, Yes. Which one was Vance?
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  He's the guy from Ziggurat. Oh, that's right, that's right.
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  Who isn't here to buy, he's just here to take his Commission.
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  Who were the other two that died?
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  But one from Biotechnica and one from Rock.
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  Did I get their names? Sure got Patrick Stalwart and
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  Becky Twist. Hey V, I'm going to say quietly.
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  Hey V, keep an eye out real quick while I check something.
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  Vance and breast fruits. Miss Popescu.
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  It's really nice that we were able to make it here.
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  Too bad Patrick wasn't able to come this time, don't you think?
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  Very, very loudly. Oh dear, it is a disappointment,
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  but look at the opportunity we have here today.
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  You see Mrs. Fruit's eyebrows rise.
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  Vance shifts uncomfortably in his chair.
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  What did they get the last time they were here?
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  Do you remember? Patrick didn't get anything.
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  Oh. Just went missing.
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  Strange. We're, we're, we're, we're,
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  we're here to talk about the beard, you know?
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  What about previous? Oh.
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  You're right, 1,000,000. DV spits out her glowing drink.
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  Do you spit it at anybody? Yeah, not Miss Fruits, the other
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  sketchy 1. Are you spitting your glow drink
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  at Zeal Mastic? Yes, I spit my glow drink out at
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  Zeal. All right.
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  So he is directly to your left and then across the table is
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  Jezebel from Continental Branch. Shit, I'm using my inspiration,
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  OK? Is it acting?
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  I I mean what? You could also do something
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  like, I don't know Streetwise or I don't know anything else. 15
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  yes, that's. Enough to get to Tracy.
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  Did I get a? What?
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  Trank Dirt. I didn't buy it.
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  Oh I do, but I think I actually still have trancards in my
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  inbox. I have trancards in my
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  inventory. Yeah, so you've created this
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  distraction because I roll the two.
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  So you spit this glow drink into this petrochem executive.
• 23:01
  God damn it, fuck me. Oh, it's in my heart.
• 23:05
  It's in my heart. It creates enough of a
• 23:07
  distraction in this moment that you.
• 23:08
  Can so sorry thing. Before everyone part finally
• 23:11
  settles, I'm going to. Oh my God, I'm I'm going to
• 23:17
  trank them. What?
• 23:23
  Is happening. No, I I kind of want to.
• 23:25
  I want to. I want to delay it.
• 23:28
  OK, use your medical expertise to do that.
• 23:30
  I'm. Going to I like, concoct a
• 23:32
  delayed trunk where after like 10 minutes or something he'll
• 23:37
  just suddenly pass out. Yeah, let me see if I can Jerry
• 23:40
  rigged this here one moment. Make it medical tech 15.
• 23:47
  Yes, You jab one of the darts into his leg and then pull back
• 23:51
  just enough to leave him a little woozy as he starts to
• 23:55
  fade in and out, but nobody really notices that because he's
• 23:58
  still holding his eyes and has adrenaline enough to stay awake.
• 24:02
  God damn it. Sorry Sir, I was not expecting
• 24:05
  1,000,000 right away. It just.
• 24:07
  Is this a you green fucking newbie?
• 24:10
  God damn. Sorry, sorry.
• 24:12
  I'm. Farting a million every day?
• 24:14
  You got to be fucking kidding me.
• 24:17
  Sorry, sorry Sir. Fucking hell, Biotechnica, who
• 24:21
  you bring? Fucking God damn.
• 24:23
  I bring medical experts. I'm a train.
• 24:26
  Medical expert, Sir. What?
• 24:27
  Oh, it's called a heart, right? You know that doesn't make sense
• 24:30
  now. Fuck.
• 24:31
  And my leg hurts too. That's really weird.
• 24:33
  Oh. As a matter of fact, just let me
• 24:37
  take a look at your eyes. You'll be fine.
• 24:39
  There's no damage. His his eyes are dilating at
• 24:42
  different rates. The drug is starting to take
• 24:44
  hold. Whoa, OK, whoa.
• 24:47
  Yep, you'll, you'll, I, I don't it's your, you know, it's their
• 24:51
  drink. So I don't know, you know, but.
• 24:53
  Just be if next time you do a spit take, maybe do it on one of
• 24:56
  your own papers. Apologies, Sir.
• 24:58
  Fucking nurse God damn the fuck. VVVV squints and it holds it in.
• 25:08
  I'm glad I drank them. What did you just say to me?
• 25:18
  The bidding has stopped with this moment.
• 25:20
  Oh God man, this shit all over the table God damn it.
• 25:23
  And the guy gets up. You over there bar person give
• 25:27
  me. Do you have anything to clean
• 25:28
  this up? Stands up really quickly, gets a
• 25:31
  head rush and passes out. Oh fuck.
• 25:34
  Oh, whoa. His head hits the table.
• 25:37
  Oh, whoa, whoa. I'm a doctor.
• 25:40
  Everybody please. Oh for fuck's sake.
• 25:44
  Says Mrs. Fruits. Oh, that didn't sound good at
• 25:47
  all. Bidding might be delayed while
• 25:51
  we wait for mastic to wake up. Fuck, I told you not to have
• 25:55
  heavy drinks. The bowel tender looks really
• 25:58
  sheepish. It does look like he may have
• 26:01
  had some Lightheadedness and wooziness from likely
• 26:06
  overconsumption of alcohol. He may be out for a while.
• 26:12
  Miss Fruits, it's not your fault you can't be in charge when
• 26:15
  people are too lightweight to be able to drink.
• 26:17
  It's totally OK that doesn't show anything bad on your person
• 26:22
  for somebody who can't seem to hold their liquor.
• 26:26
  I send a message under the table on my tile to Vendel and it just
• 26:31
  says now. Looking for an RPG?
• 26:42
  Podcast that isn't just D&D? Roll to cast is the answer no.
• 26:47
  No wait, sorry, what games have we played so far?
• 26:49
  Well, we've done Cyberpunk 2020. Oh.
• 26:52
  Catholo, Vampire the Masquerade. The Witcher.
• 26:56
  Kids on bikes. Avatar Legends.
• 26:58
  And cyberpunk. Reds roll to cast ROLE.
• 27:01
  A new game every. Season original music.
• 27:03
  Original stories. Interviews with the creators and
• 27:06
  delightful Aussie accents. Listen to us on all good podcast
• 27:09
  you. Can support us on Patreon for
• 27:10
  bonus con. That's roll to cast ROL.
• 27:13
  E Come discover a new world. So how, how, how long do we just
• 27:29
  kind of sit here before we? Now, now.
• 27:34
  Now what? It's from my owner.
• 27:36
  It just says now. Well shit, that could mean
• 27:40
  anything. I guess.
• 27:41
  We should probably give her a call.
• 27:44
  Hi, you've reached Iona Popescu. Please leave a message after the
• 27:49
  tone unless it's a stupid question.
• 27:57
  Beep. Hey, Iona.
• 27:58
  Hope everything's doing great over there.
• 28:00
  Just just want to check in, make sure what now we're supposed to
• 28:05
  mean. Wendell.
• 28:08
  Wendell, what do you? Sorry, I got to go.
• 28:11
  I'm going to fuck up. This now means get in the thing,
• 28:16
  Jeb, roll perception and I'm going to try and break this this
• 28:20
  thing. 1919 You definitely roll high enough to see that there is
• 28:25
  indeed a vent cover that would go into a slightly thicker wall
• 28:33
  you've noticed to the east side of this little room.
• 28:38
  A vent covering that would go into a slightly bigger wall.
• 28:41
  Yeah, the wall to your right is thick like that type of vault,
• 28:45
  and then the door to your north has the word tunnel written on
• 28:48
  it. Hmm.
• 28:49
  OK, so it looks like that door there goes to a tunnel and Van
• 28:56
  Dale, you're never going to believe this, but I think there
• 28:58
  might be something through this other door that this turret was
• 29:03
  trying to stop us from getting. Right.
• 29:06
  It's a You mean the vent hatch there?
• 29:08
  Yeah, it's locked. It's locked.
• 29:12
  So and Dell goes to examine this transformer and with some of the
• 29:17
  damage, the cables on the inside have been exposed and it looks
• 29:20
  like there's a lot of electricity going through.
• 29:22
  If they're fucked with that, they could probably cut the.
• 29:25
  Power Vendale, go ahead and use that sort of yours.
• 29:28
  I'm wondering if maybe you cut the power to this place, Maybe
• 29:32
  it'll override the the lock on the door, right?
• 29:35
  Kind of like, and this is a callback to just last episode,
• 29:40
  John McClain on Christmas, 'cause I mentioned that.
• 29:43
  Earlier, I'm not I'm not really that much of A die hard fan.
• 29:45
  Oh. All right.
• 29:48
  Did you? Get it?
• 29:48
  Oh, I got it, Van Dale. You are three for three.
• 29:52
  I mean, damn. It's good.
• 29:55
  It's real good. It's real good.
• 29:56
  You, you get me. My my belly's giggling.
• 29:59
  No, that's funny, I like it. Are you going to try and open
• 30:02
  the vent hatch first in case that takes some time?
• 30:04
  Yeah. You mean just kind of pop it
• 30:06
  open with my combat shovel again?
• 30:08
  Yeah, sure. Let's give that a go, shall we?
• 30:11
  18 yes. It unlocks and opens and you see
• 30:15
  into this room the information you got from Retro earlier.
• 30:17
  You're able to see some of the lasers.
• 30:20
  Freaking lasers. Freaking laser beams.
• 30:23
  All right, Jeb, when you're ready for me to cut the power,
• 30:26
  you say so and I'll cut through all these cables with this non
• 30:30
  conductive sword because it's made of glass.
• 30:32
  That's lucky. That is good.
• 30:35
  All right. Well, now, just to be clear,
• 30:40
  what are we trying to get again? Vendel steps over to the vent.
• 30:43
  The box on that table. Uh oh, the one the one where the
• 30:47
  the majority of the lasers are pointing.
• 30:49
  All right, I. Yeah, the ones where the lasers
• 30:51
  have to pop in front of it. When the power goes out, the
• 30:54
  lasers will turn off. All right, so should be.
• 30:57
  Because those require electricity.
• 30:59
  Now, this is really more of a guess, but I'm going to put
• 31:02
  money down that that's probably what's going to happen.
• 31:04
  That's a good guess. All right.
• 31:07
  I'm ready when you are. All right.
• 31:09
  Let her rip. And Bendel cuts through the
• 31:12
  cable, the whole machine shuts down and you see another Bendel
• 31:16
  sees another part of it that starts to spool up.
• 31:19
  Oh shit, there's a backup. We don't have much time.
• 31:22
  Jeb, Go. All right.
• 31:24
  Run, I guess athletics again, I guess 18.
• 31:29
  OK, just the box. Anything else?
• 31:31
  I mean, while I'm in here, you know, just figure might as well
• 31:34
  take a look. So grab anything else, Van Dale
• 31:37
  or just this. Athletics 18 that is not a clip.
• 31:41
  Bendel tries to push some of the cables back to get to the
• 31:44
  backup. The lights dim everywhere and as
• 31:48
  Jeb you come up to the middle of the room, you grab the box and
• 31:52
  power comes back. Oh shit.
• 31:57
  There's like a laser like right by my torso.
• 31:59
  Oh. Jason, some of the smoke has
• 32:01
  billowed in from the other room and has shown you where all the
• 32:04
  lasers are in this room and you are trapped.
• 32:10
  Oh, OK, now are are are. These, you know, like what I can
• 32:16
  say, are these regular beam lasers or like like are these
• 32:21
  are these are these Ocean's 11 lasers or barrier lasers like in
• 32:27
  Star Wars Episode one Phantom Metis?
• 32:30
  They are single beam, but you do not know if crossing them sets
• 32:33
  off the alarm, hurts you, or both.
• 32:36
  Well. I'm not going to move, I'm just
• 32:41
  going to try to gingerly place the box at my feet and then kick
• 32:45
  it over to you. Ready.
• 32:47
  OK for all athletics. OK.
• 32:50
  Careful, careful place, not the ground and.
• 32:58
  And it slides halfway between you 2 now, sitting right
• 33:02
  underneath the laser beam. Fuck.
• 33:04
  Fuck. OK, just gonna Well, you know,
• 33:12
  there's a skill in Cyberpunk RED that I don't think has ever been
• 33:17
  used by any of us, but seems to be the exact skill necessary for
• 33:22
  this exact moment, and that is contortionist.
• 33:30
  So here we go. Fuck.
• 33:43
  I would like to use my inspiration to reroll that.
• 33:48
  Do you? Have any luck?
• 33:52
  Dude that re rolling that's not going to help.
• 33:55
  He hasn't got any points in that shit.
• 33:57
  That's not great. Yeah.
• 34:00
  Better than what it thinks about to happen.
• 34:02
  Well listen I've I've used all my luck in.
• 34:09
  At the end. So this is this is this is a
• 34:13
  DV15 to OK, so the real. Constitution is can I roll A9 or
• 34:18
  A10 with this re roll because I have a six index and nothing in
• 34:24
  contortionist. Now I will offer you up the idea
• 34:28
  that Jeb tries to do contortionist shit and is bad at
• 34:31
  it. Clearly then in this in this re
• 34:35
  roll that you have been given, he can change his mind on how
• 34:38
  he's going to tackle this because contortionist is the
• 34:41
  very movie way of doing this. But my question to you really is
• 34:44
  Spoon, is it the jet way? No, you're right.
• 34:49
  It's time to roll dance. No, no, no, no.
• 34:56
  Because as we all know, all RPGs devolve into just use the same
• 35:02
  three skills you're good at over and over and over again.
• 35:04
  So here's that. Oh.
• 35:09
  My God. Oh.
• 35:10
  My God. That is.
• 35:12
  Great success, Jeb. Incredible.
• 35:16
  All right, I just have to gingerly force my body into this
• 35:20
  strange angle. Here and like his like butt as
• 35:25
  he's like kind of squatting down like hits the laser and it like
• 35:28
  burns a hole in his butt he's. Like all right or not or not.
• 35:34
  The lasers. The lasers cause damage that's
• 35:36
  you just lost one HP. Yep.
• 35:38
  Yeah. No, I I got that.
• 35:40
  My butt felt that. Yep.
• 35:42
  OK, I guess you're going to do this my way.
• 35:47
  And Jeb takes off his help, his hat, and slides it across the
• 35:52
  room. So it's a, you know, along with
• 35:56
  the box that has the heart in it.
• 35:59
  Yeah, and just. Launches himself like a dive
• 36:03
  through the air, through the lasers, and like just lands
• 36:10
  right on the ground right next to the to the box in his hat.
• 36:12
  And he puts the hat on and then rolls out a room with the box in
• 36:16
  his chest. All right, well, the lasers hurt
• 36:23
  and I'm going to have to ask the doc to take a look at my butt in
• 36:29
  a completely medicinal way. Medicinal.
• 36:34
  Medicinal butt looking. I'll put it on our calendar.
• 36:37
  Appreciate that it's a little tender.
• 36:39
  And in the other room, Iona, you get a message that says got it
• 36:45
  and Vivi gets a calendar notification to fix Jeb's butt.
• 36:51
  Take a look at Jim's butt. It literally says medicinal butt
• 36:54
  looking. Medicinal on your calendar now
• 36:58
  for tomorrow morning. That's a new one.
• 37:04
  And VV. At this point you've managed to
• 37:07
  wake Mastic back up. Oh fuck, my seats went oh Yee
• 37:15
  Haw. Are you all right?
• 37:18
  Can we get back to it? Please.
• 37:20
  Yeah, 1.5 million. And he puts 1.5 million on the
• 37:29
  board. I think 2.2 is as high as we can
• 37:33
  go. Oh.
• 37:34
  Gosh these fucking corpals man. Iona you get another message
• 37:38
  that says you should probably get out of there.
• 37:46
  I I think our bidding is over as well.
• 37:50
  What I not even to 5 yet? We don't need it that bad.
• 37:57
  I elbow retro. What?
• 38:03
  Are we closing at 1.5? It's.
• 38:05
  Not mine. 2.2 it's. Sorry, 2.2, are we closing at
• 38:08
  2.2? I I put my hand on the table.
• 38:12
  All right. To signify that I'm done, Yes.
• 38:16
  Everyone, Rocco Genetics will leave with the nuclear heart
• 38:23
  tonight bidding his clothes. Yes, funds must be transferred
• 38:29
  immediately. We'll see a fund transfer
• 38:31
  happening. There you go.
• 38:34
  As that's happening, I'm going to lean in close to Iona and BV
• 38:40
  and just, you know, team meeting real quick.
• 38:43
  Hey, you know the last time they had one of these, the only
• 38:47
  people that walked away was Miss Fruits and Lester are.
• 38:53
  We going to die? Oh, and the person who won the
• 38:56
  bed? That's not good.
• 39:00
  Should we just go guns blazing right now?
• 39:04
  I could drink all of them. I mean, and we don't need to go
• 39:10
  through the Jeb route just yet. Yeah, I'm going to walk to the
• 39:15
  exit. Iona gets up after Retro
• 39:18
  suggests that you kill everybody in here.
• 39:22
  You. I did not do that that.
• 39:24
  Was me. That was me.
• 39:26
  That Iona decides to you. You say this very nonchalantly
• 39:30
  as you walk towards the door. I'm just going to keep walking
• 39:32
  towards the door. Are you coming?
• 39:35
  Can I say to Remy and BB? Yes, ma'am, Yes.
• 39:39
  Of course. As I leave, can I do
• 39:43
  technological perception to see if there is any wireless hubs
• 39:49
  that I can break into? Sure, roll.
• 39:52
  For. It it's like a not that one.
• 39:59
  As you're walking towards the door, you see everyone start to
• 40:02
  mill around the room. Some of the patrons go up to
• 40:06
  grab drinks and Mrs. Fruits and Celine move down towards the
• 40:12
  vault. Vance stays at his seat and just
• 40:15
  sits on his agent. Good.
• 40:17
  The door is open gentlemen, have a great night and I exit into
• 40:22
  the the the train station. Good evening.
• 40:27
  You're here as the door closes behind you.
• 40:29
  Retro are you leaving? Well, you didn't tell me about
• 40:33
  what I got with my roll at 30. You find a hub and you'll get a
• 40:37
  better signal outside of this room.
• 40:39
  Well damn straight I'll walk out then.
• 40:41
  Maybe also scurries out behind. As you all come out to this
• 40:47
  area, Vendel and Jeb come out with the nuclear heart in a box.
• 40:52
  Is it a heart-shaped box? No.
• 40:55
  It's a wooden crate to not draw attention to it.
• 41:00
  All right, we need to get even now, now, now.
• 41:04
  Jeb's butt is smoke smoldering slightly.
• 41:06
  What? Happened to your butt, Jeb.
• 41:09
  I don't care what happened to us, but we need to leave.
• 41:12
  No, actually they, I, I think I agree.
• 41:14
  We do. We have to get the hell out of
• 41:15
  here right now. OK, let's leave.
• 41:18
  Is there a train? Hold on one second, was I able
• 41:21
  to break into their system? 30 Yeah, you have access to some
• 41:25
  of the security features. Oh, I delete every bit of
• 41:28
  footage of us on there. Oh.
• 41:34
  You have to roll again for that. That's a lot of data.
• 41:38
  Throw some luck into that one, baby.
• 41:39
  Three points of luck into that. Yes, yes.
• 41:42
  Reference to a dirty 30 Again, thank you. 3030.
• 41:46
  Land vehicle tech. That's not what you do, no.
• 41:51
  It's like a it's like a land vehicle to me.
• 41:56
  Fine, what's? T3 you manage to delete all the
• 42:00
  information of it the I'm sorry 36 The only information you are
• 42:05
  not able to remove because you didn't roll a crit is that Iona
• 42:10
  came to this meeting the records of who they brought gone records
• 42:14
  of way what you did visually gone, the records of that guy
• 42:17
  getting shot gone, but not the records of who sold to just that
• 42:22
  I owner attended because the Reliqui pass stuff was stored on
• 42:25
  a non on a non wireless part of this network.
• 42:28
  OK, time to go and you all step. Towards the.
• 42:33
  Platform and the platform does not have a train coming.
• 42:37
  Oh boy. For 10 minutes. 10.
• 42:41
  Minutes. We did.
• 42:42
  Not exactly, we didn't. Time this for the train
• 42:45
  schedule. No, but but me and Van Dale did
• 42:48
  time that explosion, am I right? That's great.
• 42:51
  I'm so proud of you. We need to do something.
• 42:55
  We just walked down the tracks. Oh God, thanks.
• 42:58
  How? How about you?
• 42:59
  1. Hey, the object's missing sound
• 43:02
  the alarm. Down the tracks, down the
• 43:04
  tracks, Let's go. All right, here we go.
• 43:07
  Down the tracks. Oh my God.
• 43:20
  Next time on no latency. Tunnel, let's go.
• 43:25
  Get back in the vents. Bunker up here and hold them
• 43:28
  off. How do we know you didn't set up
• 43:29
  the alarm and set this whole thing up?
• 43:31
  He makes a good point. Sorry, sometimes he gets like
• 43:34
  this after a drink. No, I'm just going to say I'm
• 43:36
  still spread wide open. Nobody's told me shit yet.
• 43:38
  We. Clearly established.
• 43:39
  Those are very strong drinks. Use your robot leg.
• 43:42
  All right. I guess we're using the robot
• 43:45
  leg. Yeah, all right.
• 43:47
  Well, I do like a sneaking. What are you doing?
• 43:51
  If he passes out, it's fine. Oh yeah, I got some boost.
• 43:54
  If we do not take him to a doctor, is he going to die?
• 43:57
  No, he'll live. I.
• 43:59
  Got three of them, in fact. You hit your head pretty hard
• 44:02
  actually. This guy is such an.
• 44:03
  Asshole. Oh, I just felt like anything
• 44:06
  that I might say might, you know, make things more difficult
• 44:08
  than they had to be. Oh, let me see, how did how did
• 44:10
  they paint the? Picture Oh, another heist it.
• 44:13
  Needs a little bit of work, but I'll take care of it.
• 44:15
  Well, I got a laser in my butt. Are you dropping trow in the
• 44:18
  bar? Oh.
• 44:19
  Shit, Jeff got branded. Thank you for joining us on our
• 44:52
  adventure once again here at No Latency.
• 44:56
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  listening. We literally couldn't do this
• 45:25
  without you. And of course, we'll see you
• 45:28
  next time in Night City. Thanks for listening, Jim.